Keisean Raines, known online as The Calm Coach, is sounding the alarm over what she describes as a dangerous wave of “animated propaganda” entering America’s classrooms.
In a recent Instagram post and video, Raines criticized PragerU’s expansion into children’s media, warning that its cartoon lessons distort history, downplay oppression, and replace education with indoctrination.
“PragerU isn’t just making kids’ content,” Raines said in her video. “They’re making cartoons as propaganda, pushing far-right, revisionist history straight into classrooms and living rooms.”
Her concerns center on how the videos portray slavery, civil rights, and American history. In the clips, PragerU narrators argue that white people were the first to end slavery, that the civil rights movement focused too much on race, and that Columbus was simply “misunderstood.”
Raines described these narratives as “a sanitized pro-colonial version of history wrapped in kid-friendly animations and catchy theme songs.”
The issue is more than theoretical. States such as Florida and Oklahoma have already approved PragerU Kids content for public schools.
In Oklahoma, the state recently introduced a PragerU-developed test for out-of-state teacher applicants as part of an effort to keep “woke indoctrinators” out of classrooms, a move that has sparked national debate.
Raines warned that this trend mirrors the past, pointing to the Jim Crow era when textbooks falsely claimed enslaved people were happy.
“Propaganda starts with the youngest minds,” she said. “When you teach a child that oppression was complicated, you raise an adult who thinks injustice is just a footnote.”
For Raines, the fight is not about politics but about truth. She urged parents to review school curricula, support educators advocating for accurate history, and call out misinformation in all forms.
“Our kids deserve more than cartoon lies,” she said. “They deserve the whole story.”
